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WCF 4.0 Multi-tier Services Development with LINQ to Entities

You're reading from   WCF 4.0 Multi-tier Services Development with LINQ to Entities Build SOA applications on the Microsoft platform with this hands-on guide updated for VS2010

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Published in Jun 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849681148
Length 348 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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WCF 4.0 Multi-tier Services Development with LINQ to Entities
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
1. Introducing Web Services and Windows Communication Foundation 2. Implementing a Basic HelloWorld WCF Service FREE CHAPTER 3. Hosting and Debugging the HelloWorld WCF Service 4. Implementing a WCF Service in the Real World 5. Adding Database Support and Exception Handling to the RealNorthwind WCF Service 6. LINQ—Language Integrated Query 7. LINQ to Entities: Basic Concepts and Features 8. LINQ to Entities: Advanced Concepts and Features 9. Applying LINQ to Entities to a WCF Service 10. Distributed Transaction Support of WCF Index

Testing concurrency with WCF Test Client


Now we have concurrent support added to the service let's test it with the built-in WCF Test Client.

Press Ctrl + F5 to start the program. Click on GetProduct, enter a valid product ID, and then click on the Invoke button to get the product details. You should have a screen like the following image.

From this image we know the product, RowVersion, is returned from the database to the client. It is of the Byte[] type.

Now click on UpdateProduct and enter the same product ID, a new name, quantity per unit, and unit price. However, you can't enter a value to the RowVersion field for this update because it is of the byte[] type.

If you click on the Invoke button to call the service you will get an exception like this:

From this image we can see that the update failed due to concurrency control (actually a concurrency exception is thrown in the data access layer). The reason is that we didn't pass in the original RowVersion for the object to be updated and...

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